Sharp-tailed Ibis

Sharp-tailed Ibis / Cercibis oxycerca

Sharp-tailed Ibis

Here the details of the Sharp-tailed Ibis named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cercibis oxycerca
Protonym:  Ibis oxycercus Av.Sp.Nov.Brasil. 2 p.69 pl.87
Taxonomy:  Pelecaniformes / Threskiornithidae /
Taxonomy Code:  shtibi1
Type Locality:  'Province of Pard,.''
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Publish Year:  1825
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CERCIBIS
(Threskiornithidae; Ϯ Sharp-tailed Ibis C. oxycerca) Gr. κερκος kerkos  tail; ιβις ibis, ιβιδος ibidos  ibis; "35. Genus. Cercibis Wagl.  Schweifibis.    Rostrum gracile, parum curvatum, culmine acute compresso; pedes breviusculi, validiores; tarsi et tibiae pars nuda squamis oblongo-hexagonis, illi latere externo serie scutellorum tecta; ungues mediocres, arcuati, compressi, excluso illo digiti antici intermedii acie interna subinflato. Ptilosis: unicolor, obscurus, micans; alae maximae, longissimae, caudae medium transcendentes; haec longissima, cuneata; facies (ad latera) et vitta longitudinalis ad utrumque latus menti nuda.    Species: 1. Cerc. oxycerca (Ib. oxyc. Spix Av. Bras. t. 82.  Wagl. l.c. sp. 15.)   Steht bis jetzt der Sippe Theristicus zunächst." (Wagler 1832); "Cercibis Wagler, Isis, 1832, col. 1232. Type, by monotypy, Ibis oxycercus Spix." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 136).

oxycerca / oxycercus
Gr. οξυς oxus sharp, pointed; κερκος kerkos tail.

Oxycerca
(Estrildidae; syn. Lonchura Scaly-breasted Munia L. punctulata) Gr. οξυς oxus  sharp, pointed; κερκος kerkos  tail; "OXYCERCA, G. R. Gray (1842).  Lonchura a, Sykes (1832).  O. nisoria (Tem.), G. R. Gray. Pl. col. 500. f. 2.   ...   a Used in Ichthyology." (G. Gray 1841); "Oxycerca G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 10.  New name for Lonchura Sykes, 1832, considered preoccupied by Lonchurus Bloch, 1793 (Pisces)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Oxycera.